This Week’s MMA Birthdays: Ryo Chonan Turns 37

It remains a gold standard by which all jaw-dropping submissions
are measured.

Ryo
Chonan -- who celebrates his 37th birthday on Oct. 8 --
submitted Anderson
Silva with a ridiculous flying scissor heel hook at Pride
“Shockwave 2004” on Dec. 31, 2004 at the Saitama Super Arena in
Saitama, Japan. Sports Illustrated later tapped it “Submission of
the Decade.” Silva went on to become arguably the greatest
pound-for-pound fighter in history and did not suffer another
legitimate defeat for nearly nine years.